Bitcoin – Crypto Currency to rule them all

Current Bitcoin Rate in US dollars: It all started August 18, 2008, when a person or a group, known only as “Satoshi Nakamoto” registered a new domain known as Bitcoin.org. From there, he released an initial design paper for the new cryptographic Bitcoin currency on October 21st, registered the Bitcoin client project on Sourceforge on November 9, and mined …

Multi Core Madness

As Intel and AMD grew close to the physical limit of the smallest transistor they could build, they had to find ways of packing more transistors and continue to increase computing power. Their solution was to add more processing units – all working together in tandem, and sharing some of the cache memory provided. Since …